< : . By (Hike Min Battalion Sports Editor Rice May Prove to Be Toughest Aggie Foe; Cadet Hitting Shows World of Improvement This past week-end’s baseball results left the conference race in a more muddled spot than ever. With the possible exception of Baylor every team has a chance for the crown, with the Aggies and Texas, at this time, holding the inside track. However, it seems to me that Rice will furnish the toughest bar rier to Aggie championship hopes. Of course, they haven’t anything to brag about, but they do have a pitcher who has shown plenty of promise in his work on the mound. His name is Jimmy Pendarvis, a sophomore flinger, who has ac counted for tlhe two Owl wins. His pitching against Baylor was ex cellent, and according to Coach Jim Crow of the Bears, the Aggies will have a tough time hitting his of ferings. That statement comes from a coach whose pitchers were pounded for 15 runs and 20 hits Saturday afternoon by a team that has been showing improvement with each tilt. , And, now, back to the Cadets. Saturday afternoon, they proved that their recent heavy hitting was no fluke. They faced one of the best pitchers in the conference in Manuel Garcia but still found his offerings to be no mystery. Garcia showed a nice curve at the outset of the game, and with proper sup port, he could have given a better performance. At any rate, with the kind of hitting the Dimmitt- men got, they could use their bat- boy as a pitcher and still come out on top. On the day of the game, I men tioned the fact that Cullen Rogers was improving his batting eye with each game and he certainly didn’t let me down. His hitting was mag- nificient, and if he continues his torrid pace, he may soon be at the top of the batting leaders. He is meeting the ball much better than he did at the start of the year, and his body at the plate is loose rather than tight. As a matter of fact, the whole tean\ has improved its eye, be cause, brother, when you average 15 runs and 15 hits per game in the past five games, you aren’t hitting thin air. That’s how matters stand now. The Aggies are on top of the heap, and it’s going to take a mighty tough foe to knock them off—yes, a mighty tough foe. Sports Squibs From Here and There; Roy Bucek Ties Low Hurdle Record in Exhibition Roy Bucek, captain and ace hurd ler of Coach Dough Rollins’ track team tied Freddy Wolcott’s record J'S % MEXICAN FOOD Bring Your Guests Out For An Enjoyable Afternoon or Evening • • • No Cover Charge In The Afternoon FRANKLIN’S On Airport Road in the 220 low hurdles in an ex hibition Saturday afternoon . . . his time was 23 seconds . . . Roy, however, will have to do it over again if he wants it to go in the books for exhibitions don’t count. . . . Big John Scoggin still leads the Aggie batters with a lusty .440 average . . . Leo Daniels found himself in the select .400 group when he hit 2 for 4 Saturday . . . Cul Rogers also raised his average from .286 to .354 by slapping out four hits . . . the Athletic Depart ment issued the following men let ters in their respective sports— Swimming — Conway, Cowling, Goodman, Kiel, Lapham, Loomis, Looney, McKey, Renaud, Taylor, Winters, Johnson, . . . Polo— Maloney, Braid, McGowan, Hart, Buie, and Raley . . . Fencing— Stillinger, Shaw, Adcock, Wells, and Bederman . . . these lettermen were officially released by the athletic office Saturday . . . Wen dell Acrey is the third Aggie base- baller to catch the mumps . . . the other two were Jim Newberry and Earl Seay . . . We Will Buy Coat Hangers 60^ a Hundred Holicks Cleaners ^ jl .: * W ^r\rrow manages millions of teams — shirt-tie-handkerchief teams! ^RROW makes shirts, ties, and handker- chiefs that harmonize — not match, har monize! They’ve been designed with you in mind by America’s leading stylists. You ought to see them pronto. Elegant patterns ancj just-so tailoring. EXCHANGE STORE Water Carnival Plans Now Under Way Swim Affair to Be Presented at Pool Thurs, Fri, and Sat Featuring 75 minutes of fun and frolic, the sixth annual Water Car nival will be held Thursday, Fri day and Saturday night at 7:45. The annual affair, sponsored by the Texas A. & M. Water Polo team, will feature “Victory” as a theme. Fire Dive The highlight of the carnival will be the Fire Dive performed by Frog Baxter. Baxter will thrill the crowd by diving into flaming water with gasoline soaked cloth ing. The water polo team is im porting two famed aquatic stars, U. A. Young and Bland Schwart- ing, who are from Baylor univer sity. Other features will be illum inated swimming formations, and a water polo game between the possible next year’s team and a team of seniors and ex-students. Novelty Acts Fish Griffin, junior national 220-yard champion and Bob Cow ling, conference 100-yard breast stroke champion will swim a 100- yard exhibition race. There will be many novelty acts and especially amusing will be the back stroke race between the varsity and the freshman team. The swimmers will be slightly handicapped in that they will be attired in night shirts. Evolution of Swimming As a finale, and as a method of introducing the members of the swimming team, there will be a demonstration of the evolution of swimming from the dog paddle to the crawl, Bob Taylor, record hold er, will demonstrate the free style. The fish team will be introduced by novelty swim strokes. Aggies Take Free-Scoring Tilt From Baylor, 15-9 Shuford Gets Credit For Win Sat; Rogers Leads Batters With Four Blows In a free-scoring fracas on Kyle Field Saturday afternoon the Tex as Aggies defeated the Baylor Bears by a score of 15-9. The Cadets took an early lead and were ahead 6-3 at the end of the sixth stanza but the Bears came through with a seventh inning rally to tally five runs. In their half of the seventh, however, the Aggies brought across four runs and scored five times in the eighth to sew up the game. Cullen Rogers, Aggie left field er, was the big gun for the Ma roon and White team, getting Battalion Sports TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1942 PAGE 3 Highlights of the Weekend Right to left above shows Bill Henderson spar ring with A1 Aikman just before the Aggie four sports letterman delivered his knockout blow to retain his Class A heavyweight crown. Right top shows Don Frye, ace freshman dash man coming in ahead of the field in the 880 yard run. Trailing him is “Red” Battin. Left bottom shows Leo Daniels, hard hitting outfielder, rounding third on Rogers’ double in the seventh inning. Daniels started the big Aggie seventh frame with a two bagger. —Staff Photos by Jack Jones Diamondeers Meet Service Team Here Wed"’"" n Ags Lead SWC AGGIES (15) Ab R H E Ballow, ss 5 3 2 0 C. Rogers, If 6 3 4 0 Glass, 2b 6 13 0 Scoggin, c 6 3 3 1 Porter, lb 6 2 2 0 Peden, 3b 5 0 2 1 Stevenson, p 4 0 10 Shuford, p 2 0 0 0 Daniels, rf 4 3 2 0 Black, rf 2 0 10 TOTAS 45 15 20 2 BAYLOR (9) A1 Jennings, If 2 Leinwebber, If 0 Wafer, If 3 R. Rogers, cf 2 Lucas, cf , 3 Reeder, 3b 5 Miller, Ib-p 5 Hill, rf 5 Flowers, ss 5 Nelson, 2b 3 Rector, 2b 2 Murski, e 3 Garcia, p J....3 Sweet, p 0 TOTALS 41 Baylor 000 021 501—9 R if A. & M 112 002 45x—15 20 ARROW three doubles and a homer in five trips to the plate and batting in five runs. Charlie Stevenson, ace right hander, started on the mound for the Cadets but weakened in the fifth inning and finally left the game in the seventh to be replaced by Johnny Shuford, The Aggie (See AGGIES TAKE, ^age 4) Conference Standings Team— W. L. Pet. Texas A. & M 5 2 .714 Texas 3 2 .600 S. M. U 3 3 .500 Rice 7 2 3 .400 Baylor 2 4 .333 T. C. U..: ' 1 2 .333 The league leading Texas Aggie baseballers will meet the 71st Ma terial Squadron team from Elling ton Field here Wednesday after noon in a non-conference clash. The game will be in the nature of a warmup affair for the Aggies in preparation for their forthcoming clash with the S. M. U. Mustangs on Kyle Field Saturday, and Coach Lil Dimmitt is expected to play nearly every man on - the Aggie squad. J. W. “Smokey” Carden, Bill Henderson, and Henry Lindsey will probably all see service on the mound for the Aggies, with “Lef ty” Reese, former professional star from Pennsylvania expected to do the hurling for the fliers. By virtue of their win over Bay lor last Saturday, and the S.M.U. Mustangs splitting a double-header with Texas, the Aggies find them selves this week in undisputed first-place position in the confer ence rae. However, with a busy week ahead for all the teams of the conference, the standings could be considerably changed by next Saturday. The Aggies’ clash with the Mus tangs Saturday is expected to fur nish plenty of fireworks, and may have a definite bearing on the conference flag. The Aggies split a two game series with S.M.U. earlier in the season, and this will be the deciding game of this year’s series with the Ponies. The Dallas- ites are turning into the surprise team of the conference this season, boasting wins over the Aggies and And Another Jinx Goes Pfft! Aggie Tennis Team Finally Whips SMU After Four Years Coach Manning Smith’s Aggie tennis team defeated the powerful SMU netters in Dallas Friday by the score of 4-3 marking the first time that the Cadet netters have beaten the Ponies since 1938. Also Beat ETSTC Saturday afternoon, the Aggies stopped off in Commerce and over whelmed the Lions of East Texas State Teachers College, this time by the score of 5-2. Xavier Fernandez, the A. & M. number one singles player, from Lima, Peru, lost a hard fought match to Higginbotham of SMU, 6-4, 7-5. However, the other three singles men, Jack Thompson, Bill Marshall, and A1 Krezdorn, won their matches handily. Thompson subdued Shipman, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Marshall romped on Bold ing, 6-2, 6-3'; and Krezdon defeat ed Walker, 6-3, 6-1. Win One, Lose One Higginbotham and Shipman, one of the best doubles combinations in the conference, picked up two of Southern Methodist’s three points by winning the number one doubles match. They defeated Fernandez and Pat Patterson, 6-% 6-1. The Aggies number two doub les team of Marshall and Krezdorn had no trouble in downing Mus tangs Walker and Bolding, 6-4, 6-2. In the East Texas matches, the Aggies lost only the number one doubles. Unbeaten Fish Baseballers Play At Goose Creek Today Coach Bill Buchanan’s undefeat ed Texas Aggie Fish baseball team journeys to Goose Creek this morning to meet the Goose Creek Junior College in a one-game stand this afternoon. Lee Forrest, the first-year hurl- er who has annexed all three of the Fish victories, will be the probable starter today. Coupon Book Next Year To Contain Extra Ticket Which llfay be Exchanged for Any Out-of-Town Game on Schedule Transfer of the Texas Aggie- Rice football game to Houston on Nov. 14, instead of playing it on Kyle Field as originally scheduled, will, in a way, be a break for the students and local coupon book holders next season. “The game will be considered as a home game,” E. W. Hooker, Ag gie ticket manager, announced Monday. “Each coupon book sold next year will contain one coupon which may be exchanged for a ticket to any out-of-town game on the schedule,” he added. “This means that fans who buy a book can trade the coupon for a ticket to the Rice, Baylor, S.M.U. or Texas conference games or for the L.S.U., Washington State or Duke non-conference games at no extra charge,” he explained. The L.S.U. game will be played in Baton Rouge, La.; the Washing ton State game in San Antonio, and the Duke game in Durham, N. C., while all of the conference teams will be met in the other conference cities when the Aggies are away. Texas Tech, T.C.U. and Arkansas will be played on Kyle Field. Looking forward to a possible tire and transportation shortage next fall the Aggie Athletic Coun cil favored taking the Rice game to Houston so that more of the men in the service could attend and at the same time give the stu dents and fans a chance to pay a visit to Houston for a day of shop ping and still take in the ball game. the second-place Texas Longhorns to their credit. Besides the game with Elling ton Field Wednesday, Coach Dim mitt is expecting to have the Ag gies hard at work all week in preparation for the Ponies, and the Aggies should be in fine shape for the game. Charlie Stevenson, ace hurler of the Aggie squad, will probably be on the mound for the Dimmittmen, and his opponent is expected to be S.M.U. Star At well Tessman. Aggie Fish Swamp NTAC in Dual Meet Here Sat, 105-21 Lack of Transportational Facilities Causes Tarleton To Cancel Entry At Meet Piling up a total of 105 points, the Aggie Fish track team swamp ed the North Texas Aggies in a dual track meet here Saturday. The visitors won only one first place, tied for aonther, and scored a total of 21 points. John Tarleton’s Plowboys, orig inally scheduled to enter the meet also, cancelled their entry because of lack of transportational facili ties. Jennings “Grade Point” Ander son was high-point man for the Fish. He won the discus thrlow, 100, 200, and ran a stretch on the winning 440-yard relay tetam to garner an individual sum of 1614 points. Shannon leaped 22 feet 3% inch es in the broad jump for the only first place won by NTAC. He also tied Smolik of the Fish for first in the high jump. In other events the freshmen were hardly pushed, and some of the times were slow as a result. Coaches Rollins and Putnam ex perimented with the team a little —running boys in events which they had never run before. Don Frye won the 880 and Tommy Winn the mile; neither had run that distance in competition be fore. Roy Bucek, running the 220- yard low hurdles in exhibition, tied the conference record of 23 sec onds flat. Summary: 440-yard relay: Won by A&M freshmen (Anderson, Frye, Wolf, Martin) ; second, NTAC. Time: 44.2 seconds. 440-yard dash: Won by Harnden, A&M; second, Wolf, A&M; third, Crawford, NTAC. Time 52.0 seconds. 100-yard dash: Won by Anderson, A&M; second, Richardson, A&M ; third, Martin, A&M. Time: 10.0 seconds. Shot put: Won by Stout, A&M, 43 feet 1 inch; second, Boortz, NTAC, 42 feet 6 inches; third, Brand, A&M, 38 feet 8 inches. Mile .run: Won by Winn, A&M; second, Betts, NTAC ; third, Kuykendall, A&M. Time: 4.50.4. 220-yard dash: Won by Anderson, A&M; second, Richardson, A&M ; third, Kennedy, NTAC. Time: 22.8 seconds. High jump: Tie between Smolik,, A&M, (See FISH SWAMP, Page 4) “BUY THE BEST” Buy Your Complete Uniform Now and Pay For It Within 4 to 6 Months No Down Payment Uniforms made by America’s Leading Clothing Manufacturers THE LILLEY-AMES CO. Loupot’s Trading Post J. E. Loupot, “32’ North Gate f'L / Get the Newest in Both Styles on VICTOR and BIUFBIRD RECORDS 1. “NOT MINE,”—Dinah Shore. 2. “I’M GLAD THERE’S YOU”—Alvino Rey. 3. “THAT AIN’T THE WAY I DREAMED IT”—Tony Pastor 4. “HEAVENLY HIDEAWAY”—Sonny Dunham. 5. “POOR YOU”—Tommy Dorsey. HASWELLS